Oceanfront homeowners can pay for replenishment

Regarding the Dec. 17 article "Oceanfront towns face big deficits in budgets" about paying to replenish the beaches, I do not go to the beach; therefore, I do not feel that I should have to pay to restore it.

Oceanfront homeowners who don't want anybody on their beaches should pay to replenish them.

I will never understand why, in New Jersey, you have to pay to get on a beach when the taxpayers pay to replenish them. It's very wrong.

It is going to be hard enough on people who were just getting by before the storm. After flood insurance, homeowners' insurance and property taxes will go up. Many homeowners are going to be struggling, especially the ones whose homes were damaged and couldn't get any help.

Towns will be making money hand over fist with all the permits for work being done on houses to restore them. Use some of that money to offset the public works departments that worked around the clock to clean up after the storm, instead of raising our taxes that are too high to begin with.

The bottom line is homeowners cannot afford any more expenses, and the towns should start shuffling money. The people who own the beaches and live on the beach, who didn't want anybody on their beaches, should pay for them to be replenished.

Just for once, government needs to care about people struggling, especially now.

Kim Colberg

Point Pleasant

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Oceanfront homeowners can pay for replenishment

Regarding the Dec. 17 article 'Oceanfront towns face big deficits in budgets' about paying to replenish the beaches, I do not go to the beach; therefore, I do not feel that I should have to pay to

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